It was Crick and Watson who worked out the structure of DNA in the 1950s, but its discovery was made nearly 100 years previously by a Swiss physician called Frederick Miescher.
The residents will range in nationality, cultural, religion, age, sex, political association, socio-economic backgrounds, etc. The Assisted Living Federation of America reports that the average age of an assisted living resident is 86.9 years (female average age 87.3; male average age 85.7). Female residents (73.6%) outnumber male residents by almost 3 to 1.
Americans age 65 to 84 and 14% of Americans. age 85 or older live in nursing homes. 1. The number of nursing home residents has. remained approximately constant since 1985, but as a proportion of the population likely to. need long-term care, it actually has declined. Over the past 20 years, the age 65 to 84.